Computer vision for autonomous UAV flight safety: An overview and a vision-based safe landing pipeline example

E Kakaletsis, C Symeonidis, M Tzelepi… - Acm Computing …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Recent years have seen an unprecedented spread of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs, or
“drones”), which are highly useful for both civilian and military applications. Flight safety is a …

Deep learning for unmanned aerial vehicle-based object detection and tracking: A survey

X Wu, W Li, D Hong, R Tao, Q Du - IEEE Geoscience and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Owing to effective and flexible data acquisition, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have
recently become a hotspot across the fields of computer vision (CV) and remote sensing …

A Review on the State of the Art in Copter Drones and Flight Control Systems

J Peksa, D Mamchur - Sensors, 2024 - mdpi.com
This paper presents an overview on the state of the art in copter drones and their
components. It starts by providing an introduction to unmanned aerial vehicles in general …

Follow Anything: Open-Set Detection, Tracking, and Following in Real-Time

A Maalouf, N Jadhav, KM Jatavallabhula… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Tracking and following objects of interest is critical to several robotics use cases, ranging
from industrial automation to logistics and warehousing, to healthcare and security. In this …

Deep saliency smoothing hashing for drone image retrieval

Y Chen, J Huang, L Mou, P Jin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep hashing algorithms are widely exploited in retrieval tasks due to their low storage and
retrieval efficiency. Most of them focus on global feature learning, while neglecting local fine …

Fast CNN-based single-person 2D human pose estimation for autonomous systems

C Papaioannidis, I Mademlis… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture for 2D human
pose estimation from RGB images that balances between high 2D human pose/skeleton …

Shot type constraints in UAV cinematography for autonomous target tracking

I Karakostas, I Mademlis, N Nikolaidis, I Pitas - Information Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
During the past years, camera-equipped Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have
revolutionized aerial cinematography, allowing easy acquisition of impressive footage. In …

A multiple-UAV architecture for autonomous media production

I Mademlis, A Torres-González, J Capitán… - Multimedia Tools and …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Cinematography with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is an emerging
technology promising to revolutionize media production. On the one hand, manually …

Visual object tracking in drone images with deep reinforcement learning

S Ozer - 2020 25th International Conference on Pattern …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There is an increasing demand on utilizing camera equipped drones and their applications
in many domains varying from agriculture to entertainment and from sports events to …

Neural attention-driven non-maximum suppression for person detection

C Symeonidis, I Mademlis, I Pitas… - IEEE transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Non-maximum suppression (NMS) is a post-processing step in almost every visual object
detector. NMS aims to prune the number of overlapping detected candidate regions-of …